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Investigators with the Avery County Sheriff’s Office arrested fifty one year old Dwight Evans of a Banner Elk address Friday. Evans is charged with two counts of First Degree Sex Offense with a child and is currently held in the Avery County Jail under a $250,000.00 bond. The offenses
were reported to Investigators late in the day last Thursday. Investigators worked late into the night Thursday interviewing the victim and witnesses, and Evans was arrested last Friday after he was interviewed.